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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.
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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.
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The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.
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Don't waste your time on life.
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.
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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
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My goal in life is to become an adjective.
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